Fecal fistulae following laparatomy [sic], or, some accidents which have attended the progress of gynecology during the past ten years / by A. Palmer Dudley.

  • Dudley, Augustus Palmer.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Fecal fistulae following laparatomy [sic], or, some accidents which have attended the progress of gynecology during the past ten years / by A. Palmer Dudley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    FECAL mm FOLLOWING LAPARA OR, SOME ACCIDENTS WHICH HAVE ATTENDED THE PROGRESS OF GYNECOLOGY DURING THE PAST TEN YEARS.1 Mr. President and Gentlemen, Fellows of the New York State Medical Association: When asked by your committee to read a paper upon some gynecological subject at this the eighth annual meeting of our Association, it was with the utmost reluctance that I ac- cepted the task, feeling that the honor could have been bet- ter bestowed upon some more experienced and worthy mem- ber—one who could entertain the Society with fact, fancy, and anecdote gleaned from a field of personal observation, and not, as I should be obliged to do, attempt to interest you with the old-fashioned, prosaic summing-up of what other men had done to advance the science of our specialty during the past decade, and of which you are all probably well aware. The saying has often been repeated that in no branch of •our profession has more advancement been made of late years than in that devoted to the treatment of diseases pecu- liar to women. It may also be truthfully said, about no branch has more been written. The enthusiastic statistic- hunter has raked over the musty works of ancient times, and, were it possible, would have long since supplied a statistical average with which to bridge the dark ages and bring an un- broken chain of evidence, from the ancient to the modern times, to show the steady advance in the science and art of 1 Address upon Gynecology before the New York State Medical Asso- ciation, October 30tk, 1891.